ABINGDON, Va. — The sweet smell of boiling sorghum syrup was in the air at Fairview Historic Homestead last Friday when members of the Old Glade Antique Tractors Association (OGATA) took turns ...

The fire driving Mark Guenther's 33-year-old locomotive boiler raged outside his steam-filled production room. Making sorghum syrup is not cool work, even on the first day the Monterey, Tenn. heat had ...

Nashville Craft Distillery makes a spirit from Muddy Pond sorghum, a sweet syrup made traditionally in the hills of Tennessee. Old Glory Distilling Co. in Clarksville sources from local farms for the ...

MOUNT IDA - If you're of a certain age, you remember sorghum. It was used "in the old days" in the form of sorghum syrup as a sweetener. In the early 1900s, rural families depended on sorghum syrup as ...

In our earliest days of pioneer cooking and baking, the “big four” for forms of “sweet harvests,” which have provided sugar derivatives dating back to the days of the 13 colonies, are honey, maple ...

Laborious to make, sorghum lost its allure when sweeteners like honey and sugar were easy to buy at the store. But in Southern Indiana, with its rich country style food traditions (think pork ...